1st Edition

The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse

By Philippe d’Anjou Copyright 2025
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigms—like fair, right, good—convey different meanings? Delving into the dynamic and adaptable nature of ethical language and terminology in design, The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse argues that it is... Read more

Introduction   

Chapter 1        Design Ethics and its Raison d’Etre              

Chapter 2        Design Ethics Theoretically Speaking                                  

Chapter 3        Design Ethics at the Crossroads                    

Chapter 4        Design Ethics in the Science's Sights

Chapter 5        Design Ethics and its Argumentative Logic              

Chapter 6        Design Ethics as Design Practice Discourse             

Chapter 7        Design Ethics and Grounds for Choice Making

Chapter 8        Design Ethics and the Dispositional Alibi

Chapter 9        Design Ethics and the Inner Obligation

Chapter 10      Design Ethics and the Semantic Entanglement of its Terminology  

Chapter 11      Design Ethics is Ethics Practice                    

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Philippe d’Anjou is an accomplished scholar with a distinguished academic career in architecture. His research explores the theoretical and philosophical dimensions of ethics in architecture and design. He is the author of Design Ethics Beyond Duty and Virtue (2017) and Ethical Design Intelligence: the Virtuous Designer (2020).